摘要:
An apparatus produces a guide beam pattern for a missile. The guide beam pattern comprises a plurality of bundles of light beams collectively surrounding the axis of the beam pattern. The bundles of beams are modulated differently by different electric modulating potentials from optical modulators. In order to produce the bundles of light beams without mechanical and aligning devices and to obtain a guidance system operating over the entire cross-section of the beam pattern, PLZT ceramic segments are provided as the modulators, each of which forms bundle of light beams. The segments collectively cover the entire cross-section of the beam pattern from a single source of light. A spearate modulating potential is applied to each of the segments.
摘要:
A beam projector which is controlled to alternately transmit rectangular cross-sectional beams substantially parallel to a projection axis, wherein the beams are respectively pulse modulated over a correspondingly distinct pulse rate frequency range to supply yaw and pitch information and are respectively scanned in a direction correspondingly orthogonal to the cross-sectional length of each beam. The size format of the beam cross-sections and the angles of scan are controlled according to a predetermined time variable function. In a first time period, the largest cross-sectional beams are alternately transmitted and the scan angle is decreased as a function of time, so that a fixed area of detectable information is available for detection with respect to an imaginary orthogonal reference plane moving along the projection axis at a rate corresponding to the predetermined time variable function. In subsequent time periods proportionately smaller cross-sectional beams are transmitted and the scan angle is continually controlled. The disclosed embodiment employs the use of a single set of proportionately different size formatted cross-sectional laser sources as a radiation generator, a scanning mechanism, a vibrationally modulated Pechan type prism and a fixed focus optical system to effect alternately transmitted beams, of selectable cross-section, orthogonally oriented and scanned with respect to each other.
摘要:
An armored vehicle has a turret having a gun; a targeting system which is arranged inside the turret and is provided with a day channel, a night or thermal channel and a laser range-finder, a power control system for controlling the movement of the turret in azimuth and the movement of the gun in elevation; a device for guiding missiles using lasers, which generates a laser guiding line; and a turret controller which determines the mode for guiding the missile, wherein the turret has gyrostabilizer for gyrostabilizing the laser-guiding line.
摘要:
An optical guidance system for guiding a projectile is disclosed. The optical guidance system includes a laser, a first and second cylindrical holographic lenses and a variable zoom lens. The laser generates a laser beam, and the first and second cylindrical holographic lenses transform the laser beam into a x-direction and y-direction scan patterns, respectively. The variable zoom lens projects the x-direction and y-direction scan patterns in the form of multiple scan fields, each within a scan corridor, in order to guide a projectile along a flight path towards a target.
摘要:
A sight system for guiding a missile towards a moving target by use of a guidance beam that can be used for the missile to trail the target. A first viewing device receives visible light and/or a second viewing device receives non-visible light radiating from the target. The viewing device(s) include adjustable alignment marks being aligned by use of a light source and a guidance beam detector arranged together in one common position.
摘要:
An optical system utilized to provide guidance information in the form of a modulated beam for a beamrider missile during its rocket powered flight phase. Our system comprises first and second zoom type optical subsystems arranged to function cooperatively in object space, utilizing coincident lines of sight, with these optical subsystems serving to provide guidance information to the missile when the exhaust plume from its rocket engine is relatively difficult to penetrate. The first optical subsystem is utilized in a closed loop servo system for positioning a mirror gimballed about two axes, such that it continuously tracks the missile. The second optical subsystem, along the optical axis of which the modulated beam is directed, comprises a negative optical group and a positive optical group combined into a defocusable beam expander. These groups are initially defocussed, and during flight of the missile, the negative group is movable in a linear manner away from the positive group, toward the focussed position, so as to maintain by utilization of the gimballed mirror, a constant beam diameter at the missile. This beam contains guidance information for directing the missile to a selected target, and quite advantageously, these positive and negative groups are constructed to be individually free of spherical aberration and coma, such that the shape of the transmitted beam is not disturbed in any of the zoom positions.
摘要:
An optical aiming device comprising optical elements providing a primary optical path by which a field of view is presented to an observer and a secondary optical assembly providing two stabilized secondary optical paths for projecting a stabilized aiming mark into the field of view and for projecting from the device a stabilized optical aiming beam. The secondary optical assembly comprises a reflector by which the secondary optical paths are stabilized, the reflector being mounted in a gimbal for rotation about a first axis and the gimbal being mounted for rotation about a second axis perpendicular to the first axis, and the assembly further comprising stabilizing actuator means operative to move the reflector and the gimbal about the two axes of rotation to maintain the reflector stabilized against movement within predetermined limits of the device about the two axes.
摘要:
A line of sight missile system wherein the missile includes a beacon and aeceiver, and the control station includes a telescope and a four-quadrant, polarizing encoder. The telescope is sighted on a target by the operator, the illumination from the beacon passes through the encoder and is reflected back to the receiver. The signal received by the receiver is processed within the missile and provides flight control instruction.
摘要:
Device for stabilizing the axis (11) of a variable field guidance system with respect to the axis (2) of a sighting device (1) in which the sight axis (2) is adjusted until it is perpendicular to a plane-parallel plate (3) forming an optical reference element. An angular movement of the guidance axis (11) is registered by an error measuring device having an aperture (13) which is arranged symmetrically to the optical center (9) of the guidance system with respect to a further plane-parallel plate (15) and a detector (14) which receives the flux from the guidance beam transmitter after successive reflections from the plane-parallel plates (3 and 15). The detector (14) is connected to the input of an error measuring receiver (16) which supplies an error signal which is applied to a correction element (17) in the guidance beam path.
摘要:
Apparatus for a beamrider missile guidance system in which a rotating rete wheel with a predetermined pattern of opaque and transparent segments is used to spatially encode a projected beam of electromagnetic radiation with the projected spatial information being used as a tone burst code with the frequency of the tone being proportional to missile position and the projected information being projected in two axes with appropriate timing of the burst for axis recognition.